A Quote by George R. R. Martin

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

George R. R. Martin

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Half Lies More Outright Than Truths Worth

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George R. R. Martin
American - Novelist
Born: September 20, 1948

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

David Limbaugh

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Wendy Lesser

On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

Bill Moyers

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

Bernhard Schlink

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

Anna Quindlen

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

Mason Cooley

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Langston Hughes

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.